Word: longed
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...refusal of that all-magical Government sanction, which was so eagerly, so optimistically, and so long expected, was naturally disheartening, since it seemed to render negligible all effort of men in the Corps. The withdrawal of the Army officers detailed here is another, and a more immediate misfortune. Rumors of other changes, of the detachment of the French Mission, and of radical modifications of the training schedule, however foolish and baseless such rumors may be, have had a sorry effect on the firmness of purpose of many...
...universal. They wanted no one to serve. And to prevent anyone from serving, to break down the expressed will of the people, they used all the spurious arguments concerning the liberty of the individual, which have been the weapon of the demagogue and the ruin of true liberty so long as society has existed as an institution. The vast majority has provided for the minute minority irreconcilable to the conduct of war. Now we find that minute minority striving to bend the vast majority to its wishes. It is not content with its own freedom of choice. It will choose...
...foolish doubt is now dispelled. There were some who previously declared that the Administration is uncordial to college men. Of course such absurd prejudices have long ago disappeared; now the accusation of them has also disappeared...
...camp will open on Monday, June 25, and at the end of the eight following weeks it is expected that the men will have become proficient in maneuvers, practical warfare, topography, signalling with the semaphore, shooting on the long distance rifle range, bayonet exercise and simulated combat, physical exercises and the theory of sanitation. Several Canadian officers, invalided home from the front, have been assigned by the Canadian general staff to help in the instruction at the camp. Among them is Lieutenant Brown of the 13th Canadian Infantry, who has been in charge of the practical trench instruction given during...
Petitions have long since lost their strength in moving the regulated powers, and the reformer, crying incessantly to heaven for the fulfillment of his desire, ultimately loses his breath and ends with whispering pathos and a cracked voice dying into silence. Yet even at the certain doom of the reformer, again we raise our voice to query, not defiantly nor boisterously, but humbly, why Sunday sports are still barred at the University...